A British DJ has been
sentenced to a year in jail by a Tunisian court after he played a dance remix
of the Muslim call to prayer in a
He was said to have
performed at the Orbit Festival in a club located in the coastal city of
Hammamet on Friday and caused controversy on social media after he played a remix of
the Muslim call to prayer at the event.
DJ Dax J later took to
his Facebook page to apologize after receiving threatening messages from
Muslims and was later forced to delete his account.
During the court
hearing, the court, however, dismissed the charges against the nightclub owner
and an organizer of the event but sentenced the DJ in his absence to a year in
jail.
The Tunisia’s religious
affairs ministry in a statement said: 'Mocking the opinions and religious
principles of Tunisians is absolutely unacceptable.'
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